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Lidless for Mac

Keeps your laptop awake with the lid closed, built for coding agents and long-running tasks.

By nghialuong. Free and open source, MIT licence.

Get it with OpenDMG View source on GitHub

Lidless at a glance

Version
0.1.3
Released
6 August 2026
Download size
3.5 MB
Works on
Apple silicon and Intel
Licence
MIT
Category
Menu Bar and Notch
Developer
nghialuong
GitHub stars
188

About Lidless

macOS menu-bar app: keep your Mac running with the lid closed (for coding agents)

Screenshots

Lidless screenshot 1

How to install Lidless on a Mac

  1. Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
  2. Search for Lidless and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 0.1.3 from nghialuong's own GitHub release.
  3. Open it. The download is checked against its SHA-256 fingerprint and its signature is checked on your Mac before it lands in Applications.

Updates to Lidless show up in OpenDMG and install with one button. No account is needed.

Prefer to do it by hand? The developer's file is on GitHub: Lidless-0.1.3.dmg (3.5 MB).

What is new in Lidless 0.1.3

Lidless 0.1.3 (build 76)

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